AUBURN — Harriet Stowell Blake died Oct. 29, in Auburn. She was the only child of Ruth H. Austin of Phillips and Newton Stanley Stowell of Dixfield, born Feb. 18, 1928.

She lived with her mother and grandmother in Phillips and graduated from high school there in 1946. She continued her education at Bates College from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna Cum Laude) in 1950, and a Master of Science degree from Simmons College in 1956.

She was employed as a reference assistant and cataloger in the Rare Book Room at Yale University for several years.

In 1957, she married Ken Blake Jr. They resided in Weld at the Austin Camp on Firelane No. 24 on Webb Lake.

To escape the noisy activity on the lake, they moved inland to one of the oldest dwellings in Weld on the West Brook Road. Ken was a selectman in town and also a founding member of the Weld Historical Society. After a divorce, Harriet bought an historic farmhouse in Farmington Falls, where she enjoyed raising goats. From there, she moved to the Elderly Housing Complex in Kingfield and finally to Edgewood Manor in Farmington. The caring and concerned staff at Edgewood and the wonderful ladies from Beacon Hospice were such a comfort to her in her last months of life.

Harriet was “Great Aunt” to many members from the Dixfield, Bethel and Bryant Pond branches of the Stowell family.